they'd been wiped out early in the 1950's so there were no booze rall people. it's there for the country cut go strictly by merit and so the entrance universities were strictly by merit and in 1977 when deng decided to open the universities, he made an entrance examination and those that past got in. as of the people that first past those tests were like 7 million that took the exams and the few hundred thousand that entered into the universities. but a group of talented people many of whom had worked in the countryside or had been involved in other labor when they wanted to study were extraordinary thankful for letting them come back to the universities. another thing he did was very basic is send people abroad to study. when frank press, president carter's science adviser went to china in the summer of 1978 when they've just began the normalization and said we want to send hundreds of students to the united states as soon as we know and we want tens of thousands to go later. are you ready to accept? he didn't know why quite what to do. he phoned jimmy carter